BRANDING MAIDEN RAPTURE!!!!!

So, this just in from the rumor mill: My friend Sohale Kevin Darouian may soon be helping me with branding Maiden Rapture Vintage! Everything from logos, blog/shop banners, and business cards, to a background for my new twitter account. Kevin is an innovative graphic artist who lives here in Portland. He designs band posters, album artwork, etc. and he RULES it! There's no one with style like Kevin, and if there is... well they stole it from him. He is a rare talent! A visionary! I cannot wait to see what he creates for me. I'm literally squirming in my seat.

Anyway... Right now I'm trying to come up with some sort of direction to turn him in or inspirations for him to draw from when he creates the artwork for Maiden Rapture Vintage.

I've been word associating all day....

Maiden: female, feline, femininity, coy, innocence, perceived innocence, long flowing hair, curls of hair, waves of hair, lolita, femme fatale, statuesque, grecian goddess, damsel, nouveau, deco, vintage, antique, coquettish, flowers, siren, perfume, vanity, and my favorite: mermaid.

Rapture: eroticism, nighttime, dancing, disco, holiness, divinity, nirvana, embrace, sun/moon, elation, floating, levitation, glory, magic, enchantment, heaven, sex, sexuality, trance, ecstacy, secrets, seeing stars, BLISS.

What do the words "Maiden Rapture" mean to you?


xoxo
-Desiree




Images from here, here, here, and here.

N E W S I E S !

Here's some new cuties coming to Maiden Rapture Vintage on Etsy soon!

Any questions, please leave me a comment or just convo me through Maiden Rapture Vintage on Etsy!

OH, ALSO! I gave in and joined Twitter! Today marked my very first Tweet. Click here to follow Maiden Rapture.


xoxo
-Desirée

devotion.

“70 year-old Buddhist monk Hua Chi has been praying in the same spot at his temple in Tongren, China for over 20 years. His footprints, which are up to 1.2 inches deep in some areas, are the result of performing his prayers up to 3000 times a day. Now that he is 70, he says that he has greatly reduced his quantity of prayers to 1,000 times each day.”

xoxo
-Desiree

via http://www.weirdasianews.com/

Father's Day

For Father's Day my younger brother, Dustin, and I rode our bikes and took the train out to Hillsboro, where we grew up, to see our Dad. I took a few pictures along the way....

This is crossing the Hawthorne Bridge into downtown.

On the Max train.

Strange pink Dr. Suess-esque tree.

Biking alongside the Hillsboro Airport to get to 273rd Ave, the country road where we grew up.

Horses are kind of a theme around the farm....

Hanging out in the barn with Dad, Dustin, and Lita.

That's one confused chicken.

Shepard likes peas, Buddy likes to sleep.

Up until a year ago, this wheat field used to be a thick forest that my brother and I played in as kids. Goodbye deer, coyotes and pond filled with frogs. :( Hello Orowheat.

It was a really nice day......

xoxo
-Desiree

pretty songs.......

It's raining today in Portland... no big surprise there, except that it's almost the end of June and we haven't seen much sun yet... Anyway. This song by Papercuts feels like Portland today.



Warm. Yet gloomy. That is Portland.


xoxo
-Desiree

Weekend Goodies

New stuff that will be popping up over the weekend in Maiden Rapture Vintage!

What are you doing this weekend? I've barely left my house in the past two weeks since I've been trying to catch up with work. This weekend I am going thrifting, BBQing and hanging out at the park! Can't wait to stretch and feel some sun on my skin....


As always, feel free to comment with any questions about anything you see!


xoxo
-Desiree

Solids

Solid crocheted chair, solid silver table, solid hardwood car.

xoxo
-Desiree

Your Daily Kitten

I came home to find this little mess yesterday. She climbed to the top of my record shelf (a good 6 shelves high) to where I keep my 45's. Deciding that they'd be pretty comfortable to sleep on, she knocked a bunch down until she decided enough of them had made it into her bed. I'd be so mad if it wasn't so damn cute.

Despite being a total delinquent, she clearly has excellent taste in men... see that Bruce Springsteen 45 behind her? :)

Too many kitten posts?


xoxo
-Desiree